page_title: Peaches Wallace
section_title: Gliders
hierarchical_section_title: Peaches Wallace / Career / Gliders
caption_attribution_description: English: Peaches Wallace was an aviatrix who flew at the Ryan Flying School in San Diego. She later was a member of the Anne Lindbergh Gliders. SOURCE INSTITUTION: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
context_page_description: Sarah "Peaches" Wallace was an American aviatrix who was the second woman in the United States to obtain a glider license and held a record for time aloft in 1930. Wallace also wrote newspaper and magazine articles and made public appearances to discuss aviation and her experiences.
context_section_description: After the Treaty of Versailles banned powered aircraft in Germany, there was a great interest there in unpowered sailplanes.  This interest soon spread to the United States.  Influenced by Hawley Bowlus and, later, Charles and Anne Lindbergh, San Diego saw much interest in gliders.  After Wallace completed her course and became a licensed pilot,  she and several other female fliers became interested in this new sport of glider flying.
  Wallace received glider training from Forrest Hieatt, under the supervision of Hawley Bowlus, at the nearby Bowlus Gliding School at Lindbergh Field, and on January 26, 1930, after only three hours of training, Wallace achieved a 36-second solo flight to qualify for a glider pilot license. This was a third-class license, but she soon added second- and first-class licenses.  Wallace made this achievement before her teacher; Wallace received US license number 42, while Hieatt received number 47 shortly thereafter.
  It was reported at the time that Wallace was the first American female to be granted a glider license. However, another pilot, Maxine Dunlap, had obtained a third-class license in April 1929.
  Wallace set a women’s record for time in the air in a glider of 25 minutes.  This record held for over a year, being broken in August 1931.
  Inspired by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the first American woman to receive a first-class glider license (days after Wallace's first solo flight), Wallace formed the inaugural women’s glider club in the West, the Anne Lindbergh Flyers Club of San Diego. The club elected Lindbergh the honorary president.
caption: Glider Training
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